Director of Construction-Mining

Job Description

Position Summary

The Director of Construction is a senior project leadership position responsible for the safe, efficient, and successful execution of construction activities for the Santa Cruz Project. This position provides overall owner-side leadership of construction and is accountable for translating engineering and procurement deliverables into executable field work and ultimately completed, commissioned, and operational facilities.

The Director of Construction will lead the construction organization and provide direct oversight of construction management teams, contractors, consultants, and other project partners. The role is accountable for construction safety, schedule, cost, quality, productivity, constructability, contractor performance, field coordination, and turnover to commissioning and operations.

This position requires a highly experienced construction leader with a demonstrated record of delivering large, complex mining, underground, heavy civil, industrial, or process facility projects. Significant hands-on field construction leadership experience is essential.

Key Responsibilities

Construction Leadership & Execution

• Provide overall leadership and accountability for construction execution across the Santa Cruz Project.
• Develop and implement the overall Construction Execution Plan, including construction sequencing, contracting strategy, work packaging, site logistics, temporary facilities, laydown areas, access, utilities, and construction infrastructure.
• Establish the construction organization, staffing plan, responsibilities, reporting structure, and field management processes required to execute the project.
• Direct construction activities across underground development, heavy civil, earthworks, concrete, structural steel, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation, infrastructure, utilities, and process facilities.
• Ensure construction activities are properly planned, coordinated, resourced, and executed in accordance with approved engineering, specifications, schedules, budgets, permits, and project standards.
• Maintain a strong field presence and actively engage with construction teams and contractors to identify constraints, resolve issues, and maintain execution momentum.
• Ensure construction priorities are aligned with the overall project critical path and key project milestones.

Engineering & Constructability

• Work closely with Engineering to ensure designs are safe, practical, constructible, cost-effective, and appropriately sequenced for field execution.
• Lead constructability reviews and provide construction input during engineering development.
• Ensure engineering deliverables, drawings, specifications, material take-offs, and construction work packages are issued in accordance with construction priorities.
• Identify engineering constraints that could impact field execution and drive timely resolution.
• Manage field engineering, technical queries, RFIs, design changes, and construction-related engineering interfaces.
• Promote modularization, prefabrication, alternative construction methodologies, and other opportunities to improve safety, productivity, cost, and schedule.

Procurement & Contractor Management

• Coordinate closely with Procurement to ensure equipment, materials, construction contracts, and services support the construction schedule.
• Participate in development and review of scopes of work, bid packages, contractor evaluations, commercial evaluations, and contractor selection.
• Ensure construction contracts clearly define scope, deliverables, interfaces, schedule requirements, quality standards, safety expectations, and performance requirements.
• Provide senior-level oversight of construction contractors and hold contractors accountable for safety, productivity, quality, schedule, staffing, equipment, and contractual performance.
• Ensure contractor Schedule of Values, payment applications, quantity verification, change management, and supporting documentation are aligned with contractual requirements and project controls systems.
• Review contractor execution plans, manpower forecasts, equipment plans, schedules, progress measurement, productivity, and recovery plans.
• Support commercial and contract management activities including change management, claims, variations, contractor performance, and dispute resolution.

Schedule, Cost & Project Controls

• Own construction performance against the approved project schedule, budget, and established project baselines.
• Work closely with…